True. I have three immediate family members either teaching or in administration. It seems the bureaucracy is overwhelming. From what I can tell, NCLB has created a system of test taking and test teaching. The test scores are all that matters - gotta keep the money coming. Can't have charter schools - they take away enrollment and funding from the public school.
Public Schools epitomize the worst of liberal government policy.
Not to mention that the whole system is constantly reinforcing liberal dogma. Even the state tests are laden with little bombs. Stories where you must find the moral (moral is always: people who don't share what they earned are bad, bad people)... essays on segregation and how bad racism in America was and is... environmental activism masquerading as reading comprehension... My ESL 4 students are required to do a research paper on How FDR's New Deal Saved America. No, I'm serious. And the state of California wants that paper in their ESL folders that go with them all through the program, so they want to make ABSOLUTELY SURE that EVERY ESL student has obediently recited that FDR's New Deal Saved America. I could go on.